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Saikumar Chimakurthi

Oakleigh East,VIC

Summary

Data-focused Automation Engineer with over five years of experience in data analysis, ETL processes, and optimizing mission-critical deployments. Passionate about working with large data sets and driving efficient data solutions through automation.

Skilled in data pipeline management, CI/CD, and DevOps, with expertise in ETL tools like Talend and SQL. Experienced in supporting cloud environments and Unix scripting, with a proven track record of enhancing data workflows to support business objectives across Finance, Marketing, and Retail.

A detail-oriented, goal-driven team player with strong organizational, analytical, and interpersonal skills, eager to transition into a Data Engineer role and contribute to data-driven decision-making.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Automation Engineer

The Lottery Corporation
05.2023 - Current
    • Designed and implemented advanced control systems, enhancing automation efficiency and optimizing production processes.
    • Developed and maintained Talend ETL jobs to integrate data from various sources into data warehouse systems, supporting business intelligence across multiple departments.
    • Conducted unit testing and collaborated with Testers for systems integration testing of ETL processes.
    • Released and deployed Talend ETL code to GitLab, enabling continuous integration (CI) and deployment (CD) pipelines.
    • Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, reducing deployment times and enhancing operational efficiency.
    • Worked with existing Unix (Perl) scripts designed for data loading processes, ensuring smooth execution and troubleshooting issues as needed.
    • Leveraged AWS S3 for secure storage and efficient retrieval, managing data transfers between cloud storage and data warehouse systems to support seamless data integration.
    • Performed development operations, troubleshooting, and bug-fixing to ensure code reliability.
    • Set up and configured essential tools (Talend, Control-M, and Teradata) and required infrastructure for seamless data operations.
    • Mentored team members and provided guidance on best practices in ETL and automation processes.
    • Monitored and optimized code lifecycle processes, and reverse-engineered code for data migration documentation.
    • Interpreted specifications and data flows, modifying ETL code to align with evolving business models.

Data Operations Engineer

Tabcorp
01.2022 - 05.2023
    • Designed, developed, and maintained Talend ETL jobs for data integration, ensuring accurate and timely data movement into data warehouse systems.
    • Deployed Talend ETL code to GitHub for continuous integration and deployment.
    • Managed daily, weekly, and monthly data operations tasks, updating and maintaining documentation to ensure process accuracy.
    • Supported ITIL processes, resolving incidents, and conducted post-incident reviews for continuous improvement.
    • Oversaw offshore vendor support, ensuring productivity and adherence to performance metrics.
    • Contributed to achieving 99% uptime for Data and BI platforms through proactive maintenance, certificate tracking, and regular system health checks.
    • Proposed and implemented innovative solutions to recurring issues, enhancing overall platform efficiency.

Academic Tutor

Deakin University
03.2020 - 11.2021

Data Mining and Machine Learning

  • Dealt with supervised and unsupervised machine learning techniques, exploratory and confirmatory statistical methods, and predictive analytics using python.
  • Managed over 50 students per session answering their questions and clarifying their doubts with ease.
  • Dealt with coding and data wrangling which includes data pre-processing too.
  • Investigated problems such as clustering, classification, dimensionality reduction, and maximum likelihood estimation in applications across range of industries.

Interactive Application Design.

  • Helped acquiring hands-on skills in MATLAB, scripting language allowing students to quickly implement various image- processing techniques and applications of artificial intelligence.
  • Effective problem solving through logical approach.
  • Utilized Excel for student marking and grading.

Data and Information Management

  • Collaborated key implementation and management concepts, including transaction management and concurrency control, database backup and recovery, and security will be investigated using SQL queries.
  • Retrieving and manipulating data from Oracle DB.
  • Data ingestion and ETL transformations using PL/SQL.
  • Worked with variety of data sources both structured and unstructured such as, flat files and relational databases.
  • Utilized oracle with Tera Term for practical purposes along with WinSCP for file transfer.

IT Analyst

Regional Development Australia, Riverina
03.2021 - 06.2021
  • Performed data wrangling and integrated datasets for web applications.
  • Conducted troubleshooting and performance analysis for website functionality, recommending enhancements.
  • Derived insights from data to support business objectives and presented findings to the data team.

Senior Systems Engineer

Infosys Ltd.
03.2017 - 06.2019
  • Analyzed performance trends to project future capacity needs and identified bottlenecks to improve query performance.
  • Resolved Teradata connections issues and ODBC driver configuration issues.
  • Performed query tuning by redefining primary indexes.
  • Analyzing DB logs to investigate and fix user lock issues.
  • Worked extensively and supported for successful implementation of Disaster Recover Server through Data Mover which consists a lot of data analytics including dimension and fact tables.
  • Created dashboards in tableau for visualizing tables.
  • Designed, Reviewed and suggested efficient modifications to various DDLs through BitBucket (GIT).
  • Experience working with ETL processes SSIS and BTEQ.
  • Responsibility taken for redesigning Backup and Restore jobs (DSA).
  • Multi-Value Compression Analysis using Nexus Chameleon tool.
  • Performed Space Management for PermSpace through UAT, Production Backup table cleanup.
  • Teradata DBA activities like Maintenance activities, Creating and managing user accounts, Archive/Recovery operations, database creations, managing roles and privileges, Teradata Administrator, Teradata SQL Assistant and Viewpoint Tools for monitoring and control the system.
  • Generating the Daily/Weekly/Monthly Health & Status reports to assess current performance management practices and recommend improved processes.
  • Created TD scripts for the DBA needs. Incidents creation/update in TAYS site.
  • Worked actively during software upgrade from Teradata 15.10 to Teradata 16.20
  • Utilized confluence for design documentation, updating requirements. JIRA for setting up resource accesses, dependencies of tasks and permissions.
  • Monitored and enabled load jobs using Teradata Framework (TJC) including Data Mover.
  • Created different environments for testing and development.
  • Created alerts for system monitoring and smooth running of daily batches.
  • Implemented Role & Profile based access.
  • Knowledge in Teradata Parallel Transport like FastLoad, MultiLoad, FastExport and Tpump.
  • Handled high volume of tickets with less resource availability.
  • Implemented/modified automation scripts using Perl and shell scripting which helped in reducing DBA work load.
  • Cross team collaboration with Informatica ETL team.

Education

Master of Science - Information Technology(Professional)

Deakin University
Burwood, VIC
07.2021

Bachelor of Technology - Electronics And Communications Engineering

K L University
Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India
06.2016

Skills

  • SQL, Teradata SQL
  • Python
  • Talend ETL
  • MS Office Suite
  • AWS Cloud
  • Control-M
  • GIT
  • Data Mining
  • Jenkins
  • Excellent Attention to Detail
  • Analytical Thinker

Certification

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C02)

Availability and Working rights

Available with full working rights in Australia.

Timeline

Automation Engineer

The Lottery Corporation
05.2023 - Current

Data Operations Engineer

Tabcorp
01.2022 - 05.2023

IT Analyst

Regional Development Australia, Riverina
03.2021 - 06.2021

Academic Tutor

Deakin University
03.2020 - 11.2021

Senior Systems Engineer

Infosys Ltd.
03.2017 - 06.2019

Master of Science - Information Technology(Professional)

Deakin University

Bachelor of Technology - Electronics And Communications Engineering

K L University
Saikumar Chimakurthi